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A controlled before-after study to evaluate the effect of a clinician led policy to reduce knee arthroscopy in NSW

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2043-5

Published Online: 2018-05-16

Published Print: 2018-12

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Chen, H. Y. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1630-4570
Harris, I. A.

Sutherland, K.

Levesque, J-F.
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Received: 13 October 2017

Accepted: 8 April 2018

First Online: 16 May 2018

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: This study did not require data collection and was solely performed using already collected data through routine data systems. Ethics review and consent were not deemed necessary based on the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research as anonymised data was used. This work was conducted in a context of a quality improvement program and therefore met criteria for operational improvement activities that exempt from ethics review in according to the policy activities that constitute research at the NSW Ministry of Health [CitationRef removed].

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